"Ted Azito" <larboard34@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know who makes custom oil pans and/or how much tooling is
> needed to make the block mating flange part for a stamped steel pan?
> (The rest of it obviously is stuff any bike tank maker or EAA'er can
> do-oxy/acy welded mild steel..

I only know one guy who made his own oil pan. He made a lot of his own stuff
though including a timber harvester from scratch. He used an old engine
block for a template for the oil pan flange. The rest he put together from
bits and pieces he hammered out by eye. People with these skills scare me a
little.

 

"Ted Azito" <larboard34@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b53da461.0409251654.12bce725@posting.google.c om...
> Does anyone know who makes custom oil pans and/or how much tooling is
> needed to make the block mating flange part for a stamped steel pan?
> (The rest of it obviously is stuff any bike tank maker or EAA'er can
> do-oxy/acy welded mild steel..

I only know one guy who made his own oil pan. He made a lot of his own stuff
though including a timber harvester from scratch. He used an old engine
block for a template for the oil pan flange. The rest he put together from
bits and pieces he hammered out by eye. People with these skills scare me a
little.